Productivity

Remember Everything with Siri

Let Your Digital Assistant Remember It For You

Siri is your best friend when you need to capture ideas on the go. Remember a task, schedule a meeting, or capture a quote with just a few words.

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Productivity Comes from Planning

Without a plan, you’re just busy

The key to productivity is to have a plan. Whatever timeframe you’re looking at, it’s the only way to make reliable progress towards your destination.

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Routinely Get More Done

Are you building success into your everyday life?

In the early 1990s, researchers at MIT accidentally proved you can get more done with less effort by thinking less about what you’re doing. It just takes some preparation, practice, and discipline.

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5 Tips to Protect the Big Rocks

Ever finish the day with more to do than when you started? Here are five tips for protecting the big rocks on your schedule from the gravel that comes in.

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Searching Evernote

How to use Evernote’s powerful search capabilities

There’s no point to archiving information if you can’t find it again. Evernote can help you save what’s important and find it again when you need it.

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How to Pay Bills on Time with Evernote

Go paperless and never make a late payment again

Paper bills can fall through the cracks if they don’t make it into your paperless system. Here’s how to track bills that need paid using Evernote.

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OmniFocus on your Wrist

The Most Focused Version of OmniFocus Yet

OmniFocus for Apple Watch is the most focused, tactical version of OmniFocus yet. Get things done without taking your phone out of your pocket.

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When Everything’s Important, Nothing Is

You really can get more done by focusing on less

What’s important needs to stand out. Don’t let things that are unimportant pull you down.

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Talk to the Duck

Let a little yellow friend help you find the answers to the tough questions

One of the most useful programming techniques I’ve picked up is one they definitely didn’t cover in college. It can help you sort out all kinds of problems.

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5 Types of Productivity Debt

The further you get behind, the more you have to work to get ahead

Productivity is about doing less of what you have to do so you can do more of what you love. Here are five ways our choices can get in the way of that, creating more “debts” we need to pay off first.

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